Social Work Comprehensive Exam
1. Which of the following approaches proposes that the superego is
the personality structure that guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach: C. Psychodynamic approach
2. A is a set of persons who were born at the same
historical time and who experience particular social changes within a
given culture in the same sequence and age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem: Cohort
3. is the ability of an individual, family, group, community or
organi- zation to recover from adversity and resume functioning even when
,suffering serious trouble, confusion, or hardship.
Transitions
Adaptation
Strength
Resilience: Resilience
4. This perspective emphasizes the importance of relationships between
systems within an environment and considers how the environment
affects human development, interaction, and quality of life.
Sociopsychological
perspective Human ecology
perspective
,Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective: Human ecology perspective
5. A
primary goal within the area of Social Work is that of empowering people.
The concept of empowerment in social work is defined as .
None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals
to help them take action to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can
take action to improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their
sit- uations: Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so
that individuals can take action to improve their situations
, 6. According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment, when a child uses
the mother as a home base and feels comfortable leaving this base to
explore their environment. This is considered to be which of the following
types of attachment?
Avoidant
attachment Secure
attachment Positive
attachment
Anxious attachment: Secure attachment
7. Which of the following approaches proposes that behavior is shaped
by environmental reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental
approach Psychodynamic
approach
1. Which of the following approaches proposes that the superego is
the personality structure that guides moral development?
A. Social learning approach
B. Behavioral developmental approach
C. Psychodynamic approach
D. Cognitive developmental approach: C. Psychodynamic approach
2. A is a set of persons who were born at the same
historical time and who experience particular social changes within a
given culture in the same sequence and age.
Support group
Class
Cohort
Subsystem: Cohort
3. is the ability of an individual, family, group, community or
organi- zation to recover from adversity and resume functioning even when
,suffering serious trouble, confusion, or hardship.
Transitions
Adaptation
Strength
Resilience: Resilience
4. This perspective emphasizes the importance of relationships between
systems within an environment and considers how the environment
affects human development, interaction, and quality of life.
Sociopsychological
perspective Human ecology
perspective
,Theoretical community perspective
Structural perspective: Human ecology perspective
5. A
primary goal within the area of Social Work is that of empowering people.
The concept of empowerment in social work is defined as .
None of the above
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or financial resources of individuals
to help them take action to improve their situations
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that individuals can
take action to improve their situations
Increasing client political power and financial resources to improve their
sit- uations: Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so
that individuals can take action to improve their situations
, 6. According to Mary Ainsworth's theory of attachment, when a child uses
the mother as a home base and feels comfortable leaving this base to
explore their environment. This is considered to be which of the following
types of attachment?
Avoidant
attachment Secure
attachment Positive
attachment
Anxious attachment: Secure attachment
7. Which of the following approaches proposes that behavior is shaped
by environmental reinforcements and punishments?
Behavioral developmental
approach Psychodynamic
approach
